November 19, 2013
Challenges for the Sustainable Future: Profit Mr. Dave Whorton, Founder & Managing Partner, TugBoat Ventures The key force of progress is the entrepreneur. Because of their creativity, we have...
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Organization
October 15, 2014
Pursuing Whitespace Opportunities ROR Stage: Gathering and analyzing data This ROR considers the challenge faced by Central R&D and Business Development teams who, at times, identify new...
October 15, 2014
Innovation Culture ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. This working group hypothesizes...
October 14, 2014
Six Keys to Enabling an Innovation Culture Richard Lee, PhD, President & Founder, Value Innovation, Inc. Changing the culture of an organization to enable innovation has been a continuing...
October 14, 2014
Keynote: Leveraging the Edge John Seely Brown, PhD, Visiting Scholar & Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California We all know how relatively easy it is to create innovative new...
November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: In 2001, Corning faced a near-death experience. Growth had halted and revenues had plummeted. But Corning survived, and today it is thriving. The strength Corning built in facing that...
July 01, 2011
Over the past 20 years, I’ve worked in 11 of the 19 emerging markets Standard & Poor’s has identified in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America (S&P 2010). During that time, a number of...
Do you have an Innovation Board? If so: Who is on the board? Is there anyone from outside the company who participates? How often does it meet? What are typical agenda items? Is the board advisory,...
How can we best handle the transition to an open plan office? Our organization is anticipating a change to an open office floor plan. To help prepare for success, what lessons learned can you share?...
March 01, 2011
Longhua, China, is a very new city that expresses a very old idea. A suburb of the city of Shenzhen, Longhua is home to 300,000 people, most of whom work for the same company. In fact, the...
November 01, 2012
Over the past decade or so, a thriving trade has sprung up in innovation studies. Consultants and academics have in-vested hours in collecting case data and poring over performance indicators to...
May 01, 2012
On the night of October 9, 1604, Italian citizens recorded their astonishment that the universe had changed for the ï¬rst time in centuries. As they looked to the night sky, they found a new star had...
May 01, 2013
Michael J. Harsh is vice president and Chief Technology Ofï¬ cer for GE Healthcare. Mike began his career at GE in 1979 as an electrical design engineer in nuclear imaging; he holds numerous patents...
May 01, 2012
Any sufï¬ciently new technology involves the management of paradox. When a truly new and potentially disruptive capability meets existing organizational norms, the results often appear contradictory...
What is your balance between internal and external research? What is your company's balance between internal and external research (university projects, consortiums, government labs, established...
March 01, 2012
Innovation culture is a poorly understood aspect of innovation management. What enables some companies to drive breakthrough innovation consistently while others languish despite heroic efforts?...